intricacy
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Etymology edit
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Noun edit
intricacy (countable and uncountable, plural intricacies)
- The state or quality of being intricate or entangled.
- the intricacy of a knot
- the intricacy of accounts
- the intricacy of a cause in controversy
- Perplexity.
- Synonyms: involution, complication, complexity
- Something which is intricate or complex.
- There are many intricacies in the plot of this novel.
Translations edit
The state or quality of being intricate or entangled
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Perplexity; involution; complication; complexity
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that which is intricate or involved
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References edit
- “intricacy”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “intricacy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.